This week we highlight several titles primed and ready to subvert your expectations. With The Grand Scheme of Things, debut author Warona Jay fashions a "complex, layered satire" to "perfection" in this novel about a playwright who attempts to outwit an artistic institution that's riddled with racial bias. In the "entertaining and enlightening" interactive game book America, Let Me In, the Emmy-nominated writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres Medina takes a "tongue-in-cheek approach" to the absurd bureaucracy that U.S. immigrants must navigate. And for younger readers, artist Tyler Page's "sensitively and approachably" crafted graphic memoir Extra Large spotlights the "important but seldom covered topic" of middle school boys' body image.
In The Writer's Life, The Rehearsal Club coauthors Laurie Petrou and Kate Fodor discuss their collaborative writing process and how it inadvertently it mirrored Fodor's experience in writing for television. Plus, they invite readers to join them in falling in love with the historical Rehearsal Club, which housed the likes of Carol Burnett.